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48 sats \ 5 replies \ @j7hB75 13 Jun \ on: Google Cloud outage brings down a lot of the internet tech

Spent a good chunk of the day dealing with that outage. We were dead in the water and couldn't really do much. Really makes you consider PaaS redundancy but that's usually a huge undertaking. I did find it interesting that Cloudflare has some services that are dependent on some GCP services which exacerbated the problem.

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford OP 13 Jun

Yeah, it sounds easy but multi-cloud is not easy at all and few do it well. Thing is, when an outage like this happens is when you find the weak points in your systems.

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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @aljaz 13 Jun

outages of this scale are rare enough that its usually very hard to justify going multicloud given the overhead and cost

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 13 Jun

Very true. The problem really is there isn't a ton of incentive for these companies to be interoperable with each other.

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 13 Jun

Yep, we don't use GCP but we do use Cloudflare and we were also impacted

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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @JesseJames 13 Jun

I heard Cloudflare told them a way early and they just sat on it for like an hour... sad

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